Seems like there is lot of trahs like you who just loves to put words in other people mouths.
You know its like some polls .
Is Twiligh horrible movie?
90% of peole vote for yes yet its fucking popular .
So no its not lie you know shit about those who voted in this list.

That's true, for me to watch an anime I need to know it doesn't have a fucking shit stupid ending. Shit stupid like say, Fruits Baskets ending in the anime, jesus FUCK that was terrible. Or Samurai Deeper Kyo's anime ending. Or the first mahou sensei's ending. Because godamnit, I hate shit endings like those. I suppose that might fall under story, sort of though.

For me at least, this is also the ultimate end. I may have a few simple standards for which I believe an Anime should have, but they are standards so the show will ultimately be entertaining.

Not everything needs to be subversive, not everything needs to be a genre buster, not everything needs to have so many twists that it would give Shyamalan moist trousers. The ultimate end should be to entertain in my opinion. Whatever you do along the way is fine, but if you are making Entertainment, you should be aiming to entertain.

But just having entertainment in your fiction makes it worthless, as I will demonstrate:

There are an absolutely absurd number of methods of finding entertainment available to any individual at a certain time, and nobody will ever run out. Additionally, they're pretty fucking easy to make. Because of this, if something only offers entertainment, it's basically worthless by definition, as it could be easily replaced by literally anything else.

Basically, why the fuck would I watch something if it isn't going to give me anything more than I would just get by masturbating, or fuck, watching some other shit?

@ Anon 18:26
honestly, I'm not a huge fan of steak. It's too tough a lot of the time, and the fat's a pain either to chew or to cut around. I'll gladly take my beef ground.

But the analogy aside, I think the problem with a lot of "insightful" type-A anime (though honestly, I think more than a few are a tad overhyped) is that they rarely capture the same type of visual appeal as the moe anime. I can give them points for trying something artistic, but in the end, realistic or gritty aesthetics simply don't appeal to me (or a lot of otaku, apparently) as much as colorful, charming, and stylized characters or environments (albeit still very capable of being dark at times).

I guess 'animation quality' is encompassed in 'art quality' perhaps? Because that is pretty high for me. Watching Working season 2 is a joy because of some of the small details they keep getting through. This is the same for several recent shows. I think it's why Haruhi was truly considered as revolutionary as it is. Some of the minor extras they allowed into the characters truly brought it to life.

So few people realize how much life is given when you just spend a few extra frames allowing a character to settle from simple motions.

working!! season 2 is good and all in term of animation quality, but the second series lack of sense of surprise (and gag in this case is story that i perceive as a narrative) that the (every) original has.
later this series lack of BGM, bgm should be considered as important part of animation or every moving picture.

No its not the fault of pirates. Seriously thats fucking retarded and capitalist notions like that are ruining the world over. I watched a lot of anime, and buy a lot of manga. I will not buy an anime or manga I have not read, because I'd rather know that my money is heading towards those that most deserve it. You hear about billions lost each year to piracy, and yet companies all over the world are having record profits, some of them movie companies.

Why is it that people don't seem to understand that fact that people who are downloading stuff online did not actually have the money to buy it in the first place, so they aren't actually losing money? If people were stealing physical things, then they'd be losing money.

But people downloading something they probably would not have been able to pay for in the first place? There's no money lost there and they should stop trying to count non existent money. Piracy is not killing the anime industry. Wages to animators is criminally low, they ask for a LOT of money for the single discs they release with like 4-5 episodes on it for upwards of 30 dollars, not even counting how expensive some dvd/blu ray stuff gets in japan. You can buy a season of a TV show from north america or England for about that much.

Keep in mind it's generally the fault of pirates that made it not possible for them to have money to waste now... I mean we can lie to ourselves all we want about piracy 'helping spread the word' now, but that time is long over. It ended around 2005 where pirating lead to more purchases.

Thankfully quality still talks the language of sales in general... but that too is getting pretty iffy.

I've read that most of the budget for anime ends up going to the broadcasting stations. That's pretty fucked up. Canned Dogs should have a few posts explaining the details.

Personally, I don't enjoy anime (or any other form of media) that focuses solely on trying to portray characters in an attractive manner. I like to see characters who are attractive within the context of a good story. It's much more meaningful.

My thoughts on the subject of piracy:
Everyone likes to be a victim because it's always beneficial. Lonesnipa has already said most of what I wanted to say, but I wanted to make a list of the factors that I doubt companies consider when they whine about piracy:

1. The people who can't afford a copy won't buy one anyway.
2. People pirate a copy to try it out, and then spend money if they like it and can afford it.
3. Companies gain free publicity through the distribution of pirated copies.

If they took these into consideration, they'd find that it probably balances out in the end.

I think piracy is only really bad when the people who deserve to be paid, aren't. It's hard to feel sympathy towards huge companies that want to be richer than they already are, especially when most of them are publishers who didn't create anything themselves.